● Jury rules in favor of SK Nexilis in U.S. patent lawsuit against Solus Advanced Materials on the 22nd (local time), confirming patent infringement by the counterparty.

● ​Final judgment expected within weeks; subsequent procedures, including damage assessment, to follow _ base_d on the ruling.

SK Nexilis, a copper foil manufacturing investment hand of SKC (CEO Kim Jong-woo), has won a favorable jury verdict in its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit in the United States, officially confirming the infringement of its patents.

SK Nexilis announced that on the 22nd (local time), the jury at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas rendered a verdict fully supporting SK Nexilis’s claims on all five subject patents in the lawsuit filed against Solus Advanced Materials (hereinafter "Solus").

The jury found that Solus infringed upon SK Nexilis’s core copper foil patent technologies, which contribute to enhancing battery energy density and charging efficiency. These patents pertain to technologies that stably control the shape and physical properties of products during the copper foil manufacturing process to reduce wrinkling and tearing, and prevent structural damage during charging and discharging, thereby improving battery durability and performance.

With the jury verdict concluded, a final judgment is expected to be handed down within the coming weeks. Following the final ruling, subsequent procedures will be initiated to determine the scale of damages and the scope of royalty payments.

An official from SK Nexilis stated, "This jury verdict marks the first official recognition by a U.S. court that the research and development achievements accumulated by SK Nexilis over decades have been infringed upon without authorization in the actual industrial field. We plan to actively respond to the upcoming final judgment and related subsequent legal proceedings." [ENDS]